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Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture (Revised Second Edition)

Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture (Revised Second Edition)

Nisbet, Gideon

Paperback

Series: Greece and Rome Live

Ancient GreeceFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1904675786
ISBN13: 9781904675785
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jul 17 2008
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

This revised and expanded second edition responds to new developments in the reception of Greece in contemporary popular culture, and particularly the impact of the film 300 (2006). Why, in a century of film-making, have so few versions of the story of Alexander the Great - or that of Troy's fall - made it to the big screen? In the aftermath of Gladiator (2000), with Hollywood studios rushing to revisit the ancient world with Troy and Alexander (both 2004), this question takes on renewed significance. Nisbet unpacks the ideas that continue to make Greece hot property - often too hot for Hollywood to handle. His lively explorations, which assume no prior expertise in classical or film studies, will appeal to all with an interest in 'reception': the present day's re-use and re-invention of the past.

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